A curated collection of stories, tools and ideas to support your unperfect journey.

The Unperfect Library

The Unperfect Life Trilogy

A story of love that grows… from learning to receive it, to choosing to give it, to realizing you were it all along.

This story is unfolding in three parts.
Not just of a life… but of a love that keeps expanding.

Book 1: Becoming Is Messy

The Unperfect Life begins when you stop pretending and start noticing.

The moment everything begins to shift.
The unraveling of the life that made sense… and the truth that follows. Presales start August 21st!

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Book 2: Choosing is Courageous

The Unperfect Life is claimed in the moments you choose what’s true.

The space between who you’ve been and who you choose to become. Learning to stand in your truth, even when it changes everything.

Currently underway

Book 3: Being is Enough

The Unperfect Life, lived in the truth that you were always enough.

Not written after the fact… but in the middle of living the unperfect life.
This is where the story becomes real-time, real-life, and fully your own.

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You’re not starting at the beginning.
You’re stepping into the part of the story that’s still being lived.

Becoming Is Messy

A debut memoir and the origin story of The Unperfect Life Co. is on its way.

Becoming Is Messy is a story of unraveling, of love that didn’t last and patterns that did, and of what it takes to stop performing a life that looks right and start living one that feels true.

It’s not about fixing yourself.
It’s about finally seeing yourself clearly enough to begin again.

Becoming Is Messy will be published by Koehler Books later this year.

In bookstores December 15 • Presale begins August 21

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A hardcover book titled "Becoming Is Messy" by Meghann Dawson, featuring a landscape with a dirt path, greenery, and a small house in the distance at sunset.

Dear gentle reader,

The following are the books that have shaped the way we see ourselves, our lives, and what’s possible. Curated by the stewards, podcast guests, and members of The Collective, each recommendation reflects a moment of insight, growth, or transformation. Because sometimes one sentence, one idea, or one story… can shift everything.

Maybe one of these will shift something in you.

Text reads 'With love, The Stewards' on a black background.

Every book holds a doorway. These are the ones we’ve walked through…

An antique typewriter with a sheet of paper inserted, displaying a logo of a house and the text 'The Unperfect Life Co.' and 'Welcome home.' Next to the typewriter, there is a lit candle and a vase with dried flowers in a warm, cozy setting.

The Collective Book Recommendations

Some stories don’t just stay on the page… they stay with you.

Book titled "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, celebrating the 25th anniversary edition with a bright orange and yellow cover featuring a sun motif
Cover of book titled "The Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield, with a blue background and a radiant yellow light in the center.
Cover of a book titled "The Four Agreements" by don Miguel Ruiz, with artwork featuring four stylized plants or leaves.
The book titled 'The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts' by Gary Chapman, featuring a beach scene with two people walking and a heart drawn in the sand.
Book titled "The Gifts of Imperfection" by Brené Brown, featuring a red heart with a gold border and a white dove on the cover.
Cover of the book titled 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou, featuring a silhouette of a bird against an orange background with a setting sun.
Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert This book captures what it looks like to walk away from a life that looks “right” and begin again anyway. It’s about listening to the quiet voice that says there has to be more, even when you can’t fully explain wha
Book cover featuring a drawing of a person's face with black hair, where the eye is replaced by an eye symbol and the word 'wonder' is written across the face. The background is light blue. The author’s name, R.J. Palacio, is at the bottom along with
Cover of the book titled 'Man's Search for Meaning' by Viktor E. Frankl, featuring a pastel-colored abstract background with a yellow circle noting over 16 million copies sold.
Book titled 'The Way of the Superior Man' by David Deida, with a background of a vintage map and a silhouette of a man walking.
Colorful book cover titled "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert, with subtitle "Creative Living Beyond Fear."
Book titled "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott, 25th Anniversary Edition, with an illustration of a bird holding a green leaf in its beak on the cover.
Daring Greatly – Brené Brown This book challenges the idea that strength looks like armor. Instead, it shows that real leadership, connection, and impact come from being seen, even when it feels uncomfortable. It’s included because it reshapes how
Book cover of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" featuring black-and-white photographs of Anne Frank in different poses.
Cover of the book titled 'The 4-Hour Workweek' by Timothy Ferriss, featuring an orange background with red and blue sections, an illustration of a hammock between two palm trees, and a blue circle indicating it is a bestseller.
Cover of a book titled "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, featuring a vintage sepia photograph of a woman in a 19th-century dress sitting beside flowers and a decorated wallpaper background.
Cover of a book titled 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keys, with an illustration of a white mouse on a dark blue background with topographical lines, and a yellow circle indicating more than 5 million copies sold.
Cover of a book titled "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, with subtitle "Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results" and additional text "An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones". The cover also mentions "New York Times Bestseller" and "Over 25
Cover of the book titled "The Wisdom of Insecurity" by Alan Watts with an introduction by Deepak Chopra, featuring a geometric symbol and a blue background.
Cover of the book titled 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, featuring an illustration of the Little Prince standing on a small planet, looking at the sky with stars and planets, against a blue background.

This is how a life begins to change. Not all at once, but in small, meaningful moments.

One insight, one shift, one moment of coming home to yourself.